PROBABLY RHODE ISLAND, 1730-1760

Details

A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK-PAINTED MAPLE CORNER CHAIR
PROBABLY RHODE ISLAND, 1730-1760
31 ¼ in. high

Provenance

The Collection of Mitchel M. Taradash (1889-1973), Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York
Thence by descent in the family

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A corner or roundabout chair with closely related turnings and similarly shaped cut-outs in the splats descended in the Hazard family of Narragansett and is now in the collection of the Newport Restoration Foundation. Noted to have probably been made in Rhode Island, this related chair is recorded in the Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF4834.

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